Andy Deans

Andy Deans

Researchers discovered several possibly threatened new species of ensign wasps from Sub-Saharan Africa -- the first known insects to exhibit transverse folding of the fore wing. The scientists made this discovery, in part, using a technique they developed that provides broadly accessible anatomy descriptions.

To help increase the visibility of the Frost Entomological Museum, Andy Deans is using an online repository tool developed at Penn State to preserve digitized versions of the museum’s analog field notes, manuscripts, species descriptions and more.

University entomologist Andy Deans is using the ScholarSphere repository, an online tool developed at Penn State, to preserve the Frost Entomological Museum’s rare insect collections and share them with the University community and the world.